Besides git, there is Subversion and a new distributed SCM: Mercurial
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/
Being distributed, it may have advantages for cellml, considering the
worldwide spread of cellml participants.
Bob G
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 13:44 +1300, Andrew Miller wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As a proof of concept, I have set up an unofficial CellML specification
> git at http://repo.or.cz/w/cellml-draft-miller.git . This repository is
> intended to show the concept of using a distributed revision control
> tool to work on specification development, and not to suggest that this
> is necessarily the type of technology which will be used for the actual
> specification development.
>
> I have used DocBook as the source format in this repository based on the
> preliminary consensus on the CellML discussion mailing list - again,
> this is not intended to suggest that DocBook will be the final format
> used for specification development, but to show the concept, as one
> format or another needs to be chosen even at he proof-of-concept stage.
>
> git clone git://repo.or.cz/cellml-draft-miller.git andrews-spec-version
> cd andrews-spec-version
> git checkout -b normative remotes/origin/normative
>
> You now have a local repository of my unofficial draft version of the
> specification. You can make and commit your own changes locally, and
> potentially push them to your own publicly visible repository (which
> would allow me, or someone else to pull the changes into my version).
> This makes it easy for everyone to keep their own draft versions, and
> merge in changes that they agree with from others. We could eventually
> set up an official git where changes which become widely accepted are
> pushed, and to provide a starting point for people wanting to propose
> additional changes.
>
> BTW on my system, I can generate the HTML output using:
> xsltproc --xinclude --param section.autolabel 1
> /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/xhtml/docbook.xsl toplevel.xml
> >toplevel.xhtml
>
> The exact command you should use will depend on where things are
> installed on your system.
>
> Best regards,
> Andrew
>
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